Greenbrae bank robbed; no one injured

A man dressed in black robbed a Greenbrae bank Wednesday evening, a week after another business was robbed just 500 feet away, police said.

The crime was reported at about 5:30 p.m. at the Chase branch at 401 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Bank employees told police the robber placed a small bag on the counter and handed a teller a demand note, then walked out toward the parking lot with cash.

The robber did not display a weapon or suggest he had one, and no one was injured.

Bank customer Romeo Agbayani, a physician in Greenbrae, said he was in the branch during the robbery and never knew it happened.

"The bank manager came up and said 'We just got robbed,'" Agbayani said. "I was like, really? It was that smooth. ... There was no yelling, no screaming, nothing like that."

The robber was described as white with a grayish blond mustache that ran down the sides of his mouth, said police Sgt. Julie Gorwood. The man was wearing a black baseball cap, a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.

Witnesses did not see the suspect get into a car after leaving the bank, Gorwood said. The branch, which is in Bon Air Center, is adjacent to Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.

Anyone with information about the robbery can call the Twin Cities Police Department at 927-5150. Tipsters can also call the multilingual Bay Area Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-222-8477, where they can remain anonymous and be eligible for a possible cash reward.

The robbery is the second since Dec. 5, when a man robbed cash and cigarettes from the Shell station at 295 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., just east of the Chase bank. Police do not suspect the same man was involved in both robberies.